Record breaker Marieke Vervoort, who had an agonising, degenerative illness, used Belgium’s assisted dying laws to give herself ‘a soft, beautiful death’

Marieke Vervoort died aged 40 on Tuesday 22 October 2019 about 8.15pm. She was at her home in Diest in north-eastern Belgium, her parents and loved ones at her bedside, following a small party with friends. It all was exactly as she had planned.

Vervoort, a world-record breaking Paralympian with an incurable, degenerative condition that caused her agonising pain, chose to die under Belgium’s euthanasia law. Now a documentary film on release in her native Flanders recounts the story of her final years and how she chose the moment of her death.

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